Paula Cole Still Loves Singing ‘I Don’t Want to Wait’ for Fans

After Paula Cole’s unveiling final evening on season 12 of The Masked Singer, she handled viewers to a rendition of her trademark track “I Don’t Wish to Wait” — a tune she nonetheless hasn’t bored with after practically 30 years.

“These songs, they play themselves, particularly ‘I Don’t Wish to Wait,’” Cole, 56, completely advised Us Weekly after the Wednesday, October 9, episode of the Fox actuality competitors sequence. “It’s like I get within the automotive after which the roller-coaster simply goes. … After which the entire venue lights up, individuals within the viewers are singing, there’s tears, there’s hugs. It simply means so much to individuals.”

“I Don’t Wish to Wait” appeared on Cole’s 1996 album, This Hearth, together with the Grammy-nominated smash “The place Have All of the Cowboys Gone?” The previous track grew into a good larger phenomenon in 1998 when it was used because the theme track for Dawson’s Creek.

Cole admitted she was “aggravated early on” that these two songs outlined an truly prolific profession — she launched her eleventh studio album, Lo, earlier this yr — however she now appears at issues a bit otherwise.

“It’s an honor to have one thing like that that’s cross-generational and beloved and touches individuals,” she defined. “It’s a stupendous factor, and I’m OK with it.”

Cole exited The Masked Singer on Wednesday after a stirring rendition of Patti Smith Group’s “As a result of the Evening,” which she famous was the one one in all her songs she truly selected herself (she beforehand carried out Bastille’s “Pompeii” and Ann Wilson and Mike Reno’s “Nearly Paradise”).

“I like Bruce Springsteen‘s writing and I like Patti Smith,” Cole gushed. “In order that’s like a chance to honor the greats earlier than me. I thank God for Patti Smith. And I thank God for Sinéad O’Connor although she’s now not with us. However these ladies, I really feel like they provide me extra oxygen and respiratory room. They’ve pushed the ceiling, they’ve pushed the partitions again to not simply be a commodified feminine on a regular basis, actually permitting a voice and rebelliousness and even ugliness. I like Patti Smith for exhibiting her age, simply being courageous and unrattled.”

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Cole added that she wasn’t tremendous conversant in The Masked Singer earlier than making her debut as Ship, however she was comfortable to get out of her “consolation zone” throughout her time on the present.

“I beloved being nameless and I beloved Ship,” Cole advised Us. “I form of miss her. She gave me grandeur. I couldn’t tilt my head too far ’trigger it will come off, and I wanted loads of headroom strolling by way of doorways and form of a large berth for my shoulders. … However I beloved the anonymity. It gave me company and a few freedom that I hadn’t anticipated.”

The Masked Singer airs on Fox Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET.